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These allow them to succeed even in the face of seemingly big mistakes.

People who succeed play to their strengths and follow some simple principles. These principles allow them to minimize the occurrence of failure while increasing the times they are successful.

Here are 3 things successful and smart people know and believe about mistakes.

#1 You Discover What You Need to Improve On

Let’s say you’ve got a checklist of things you need to do for time management system to work, and you make a mistake – that mistakes signals to you that you probably need to remove that item from your list and replace it with a much better option.

In short, mistakes help you improve your systems and processes. Those that relate to the work you do as a professional or what you do in your personal life. Through the simple process of trial, error and discovery, you’re making your systems run more efficiently and effectively. Because of that you become more of the person you’re capable of becoming.

#2 Making Mistakes Indicates You’re Taking Action

A study I came across not too long ago showed that most personal and professional goals aren’t achieved … not because people tried and failed … but because people were afraid of making mistakes. The way to look at things is that even when you make a mistake, at least you’re DOING something aren’t you?

If you’re not doing anything, you’re never going to find out if something’s working or not. The only thing you’ll be able to do is “assume” it’s working because that’s what it says on the theoretical tin box. On the other hand, when you act, you learn which methods and which processes are wrong or are not a good fit for your system. This allows you to course correct.

#3 Mistakes Make You Smarter

When you make a mistake, unless you decide to quit at that point, you’re forced to think of another way to make sure whatever you’re attempting to achieve works correctly and you achieve your end goal.

By experimenting, you become smarter than you were before you failed. By committing mistakes, your mind is able to think outside the proverbial box.

When you do these things you'll start getting creative just to arrive at a solution that’ll help fix your problems whatever it may be.

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